lee
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *hlewą (compare German Lee (“lee”), lau (“lukewarm”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).
Noun
lee (plural lees)
- (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
- (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
- A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection.
- the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
protected cove or harbor, out of the wind
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side of the ship away from the wind
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sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object
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Adjective
lee (not comparable)
Etymology 2
Noun
lee (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
- (Can we date this quote by Young and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A thousand demons lurk within the lee.
- (Can we date this quote by Young and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Further reading
Template:Wikisource1911Enc Citation
- “lee”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “lee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Afar
Noun
lee
References
- Tomoyuki Yabe, The Morphosyntax of Complex Verbal Expressions in the Horn of Africa (2007), which cites Hayward (1976) as the source of a usex lee fax-te "the water boiled"
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
lee
- (nautical) lee (side of the ship away from the wind)
- (nautical) lee (place protected from the wind by some object)
- saaren lee ― lee of an island
Declension
Inflection of lee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | lee | leet | ||
genitive | leen | leiden leitten | ||
partitive | leetä | leitä | ||
illative | leehen | leihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | lee | leet | ||
accusative | nom. | lee | leet | |
gen. | leen | |||
genitive | leen | leiden leitten | ||
partitive | leetä | leitä | ||
inessive | leessä | leissä | ||
elative | leestä | leistä | ||
illative | leehen | leihin | ||
adessive | leellä | leillä | ||
ablative | leeltä | leiltä | ||
allative | leelle | leille | ||
essive | leenä | leinä | ||
translative | leeksi | leiksi | ||
abessive | leettä | leittä | ||
instructive | — | lein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (side of ship): suojanpuoli
Derived terms
Anagrams
Luxembourgish
Verb
lee
Middle English
Verb
lee
- To lie; to speak falsely.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Northern Sotho
Noun
lee
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From ledd.
Verb
lee (present tense leer, past tense lea or leet, past participle lea or leet)
- to move; to make a body part, or a thing (such as a bolder), move
References
Scots
Verb
lee (third-person singular simple present lees, present participle leein, simple past leet, past participle leet)
- To lie (tell lies).
- 1876, S[arah] R. Whitehead, “On the Wrong Coach”, in Daft Davie and Other Sketches of Scottish Life and Character, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 220:
- ‘It’s a lee,’ says the man; ‘she’s either drunk or daft.’ / ‘Me drunk, you ill-tongued vagabond!’ says my Auntie Kirsty, who couldna bear such a reproach on her good name, ‘I’m a’ but blackfasting this day from either meat or drink; you had better no meddle wi’ my character.’
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Spanish
Verb
lee
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of leer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of leer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of leer.
Tswana
Pronunciation
Noun
lee class 5 (plural mae)
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